Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind (Romans 12:2a ESV)

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Wasting Time

How often my brothers and sisters when questioned,
challenged, or provoked about your faith, have you rushed to respond and
defend? How often has anxiety, frustration, or pride, stirred emotions in you
that are not of God? Was it righteous anger, or was it really just pride? Satan
may try to put us on trial, but we have already been redeemed; rest in that.

Your intellect and reasoning will not cause a conversion,
only the Holy Spirit can move like that. You have nothing in you that has any
real power. You want to be powerful?Die; die to self, be used, and let the Holy Spirit move in you and
through you. You are a tool, not the Tool Maker.

Do you have someone in your life right now that is provoking
you? Do you have a situation in your life that is causing you to rehearse
conversations in your head, play out scenarios, and waste precious life on
things out of your control? Do you have people close to you that judge you,
ignore you, and possibly even hate you (with a smile)?

You need no affirmation from them, only Jesus Christ.

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning
he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and
taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught
in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this
woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us
to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they
might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his
finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to
them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at
her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard
it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was
left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her,
“Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” (John 8:1-11)

Like Jesus, next time you get questioned (or even attacked),
take a moment, draw in the sand, relax in the affirmation of Who's you are, and respond in love and Truth. If they don't listen; move on. Life is a gift and a
mission; no need to waste time worrying about things (or people) that are out
of your control. Get on your knees, thank Him for all your blessings, and daily
give Him your baggage that you've accumulated.

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Kevin De Young on Christianity

"We often hear that all religions are basically the same in that they all encourage us to love our neighbors, help the poor, forgive others, and generally be kind, compassionate people. Even if this were true (which it isn't when you get down to specifics), it would miss the point, because Christianity is not a religion mainly about a moral code to keep. Christianity is about a God who saves people who don't keep the moral code." - Kevin De Young

C.S. Lewis on Jesus

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."